ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Microsoft is making a last-ditch effort to get government regulators to crack down on Google. The Windows company claims Google is abusing its dominance of online search, online video and the lucrative smartphone market. Mic...

Comstock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- It's that time of year, when we all want to know what stocks we should be buying in the coming year, or thinking about buying, or steering very, very clear of. So here are seven of the biggest stocks worth keeping your ...

Google(NEW YORK) -- Only on the Internet could you find two tech companies competing to track Santa. Last week NORAD, which has tracked Santa since 1955, announced its new Internet Santa service. While it still tracks Santa and his reindeer on Christma...

NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Google's annual roundup of the year's top search trends revealed that people took to the Internet to learn more about Whitney Houston, Hurricane Sandy and Big Bird, but an unlikely pain in the butt joined the...

Ingram Publishing/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask are out with their lists of the top searches of the year.The search engines say such lists show “top rising searches” of 2012, not necessarily the most-searched items of ...

Google(TOKYO) -- In the early hours after the tsunami hit northeast Japan last year, Google launched a Person Finder site that helped reconnect families and loved ones in the most devastated regions.Months later, the web giant dispatched its street vie...

Google(NEW YORK) -- You ready to space out? Literally? Google’s got just the trick, and no, it’s not another Doodle.The company’s creative lab has put together a new project called 100,000 Stars. Dubbed an “experiment,” th...

KIMIHIRO HOSHINO/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Some of the best multinational workplaces are tech companies right here in the U.S., according to a new list compiled by Great Place to Work.The research and consulting firm, which is celebrating its 20th ...

Photos.com/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Last week it was YouTube for a few minutes, but this week it was more than just the streaming video service that wasn't available to Internet users.Earlier this week, Amazon's Web Services went down causing sites that...

YouTube/ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Those who visited YouTube Thursday got a "500 Internal Server Error" starting at around 4:15 p.m. ET. The very popular video service went down for about 15 minutes Thursday afternoon. Service was restored for most by 4:30 ...

Hemera/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- U.S. stocks fell for the first day this week as jobless claims soared and shares of Google were halted Thursday. The Dow lost eight points to end the session at 13,549. The S&P dropped four points to 1,457. The N...

Google(NEW YORK) -- While Apple is apologizing for its new Maps app and trying to mend the glitches, Google is trying to stomp it into the ground.For those who haven't been following the mobile maps war between the two tech giants: Apple's new maps app...

Microsoft(NEW YORK) -- While President Obama and Mitt Romney may be racing against each other on the campaign trail and fighting it out behind podiums this month, the tech giants are up to something very similar.This month, the major technology compani...

KIMIHIRO HOSHINO/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- How much toilet paper would you need to cover Texas? How many vacuum cleaners are made a year? Can you swim faster in water or in syrup? How would you weigh your head?If your answer to th...

SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The verdict in the landmark Apple v. Samsung case was a major win for Apple -- the jury finding that many of Samsung's phones and tablets copied Apple's iPhone and iPad, and recommended that Samsung...

JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Google says it is acquiring the travel brand Frommer’s from John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.“The Frommer's team and the quality and scope of their content will b...